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After all the awesome parties and libations, analog lovin’ workshops and thousands of rolls of film, we’re prepping to say goodbye to our Lomography Gallery Store San Francisco on Sunday, June 9, 2013.

Spring has finally hit the city, which means we're planning to celebrate pinhole photography day at Dolores Park! If you have a Diana F+, be sure to bring that along for your pinhole photos. We'll also be putting together a studio portrait workshop with the graceful Diana. And in case you didn't know, Lomography is celebrating the first annual film photography day! Our store will be having a party that evening for our gallery featuring various local photographers. Check out the events and come by!

Winter break is sadly long gone, but some of us are finally coming out of hibernation and remembering to develop rolls of film that have been just as neglected as our New Years Day resolutions. Ned from the Lomography Gallery Store in San Francisco had the advantage of spending nearly one month over winter break in Europe with the LC-Wide camera. He officially had his film developed from the Lomolab and this was his experience:

Join the San Francisco Lomography Gallery Store for a workshop dedicated to the Diana F+ camera, On Sunday February 24th @1pm! Our Lomography staff member, Sherese will be walking you through all the features this camera has to offer.

Join Ned from the Lomography staff on Sunday, February 17th @1pm for an amazing photo walk through Chinatown. If you didn’t get the chance to join us for the multiple exposures workshop in Chinatown then take advantage of this photo walk! Hidden alley ways and colorful lanterns are awaiting you and your Lomography camera!

It's officially in stores! The Belair has finally landed at the Lomography store in San Francisco. One of our Lomo staff members, Joe was rewarded the right to be the first of the staff to test the camera and write about his experience using it. If you missed out on pre-ordering your Belair, now's your chance to see the camera in person and pick it up in stores. Please welcome the new addition to the Lomography camera family...

Our birthday party was an affair to remember! We got back our shots from the shindig and wanted to post them up for everyone to see - especially if you couldn't make it out. Cheers to the next 20 years!

Come warm up with Lomography in San Francisco. We will be celebrating the release of "On The Road" and the winner of the Get On The Road With Lomography Competition with a holiday gallery show to warm your heart and spark your creativity!

Take advantage of history in the making by photographing San Francisco’s bay bridge with your Lomography camera! Our staff member, Sherese had an internship with Bay Area photographer, Joshua Ets-Hokin, who inspired her to write this while assisting on a shoot for a bridge tour. Before jumping on board with the Cal Trans guide and crew, they were garbed in life vests and crowned with an official Cal Trans helmet.

With a camera expert like Joe on the Lomography Gallery Store San Francisco team, you always know he'll be in the store with some cool new camera. Recently, we found out he was rocking this very odd "scamera" and couldn't help but find out more. Below is Joe's review of this very interesting, and sneaky, lil camera.

We're getting our autumnal on at the Union Square Gallery Store! This season has a special array of perfect Ocotober-y events: from a topical film-swap to a huge Halloween party! Be sure to contact the Store to reserve a spot in a workshop and feel free to come by and say hello anytime.

One of our Gallery Store regulars and Lomographer extraordinaire, Koduckgirl, shares her accidental awesomeness with the LC-Wide and multiple exposure wonder. You can see some of her work upstairs in our "Hella Locals" Gallery Show until the end of September.

Hey Lomo lovers! We're excited to at last have an event hosted by the one and only Christine Zona. As the illustrious founder of the San Francisco Toy Camera meetup group and Lo-Fi fanatic, she'll be leading us through a very special workshop.

We can't believe that it's already August... Time sure flies when you're having fun! July was a blast, and we at the Lomography Gallery Store San Francisco are following it up with a handful of pretty cool new workshops for you and yours.

The City of San Francisco is obviously visually interesting. We've got incredible architecture, as apparent in iconic TransAmerica Pyramid, the San Francisco Ferry building, or the red arches of the Golden Gate Bridge. We're often so busy taking in landmarks that we hardly notice another aspect of the the city...The graffiti that penetrates every district and neighborhood.

Join Muni Diaries and Lomography San Francisco for a high-speed Muni-themed photo workshop. We'll be riding through the streets and tunnels of the city with film cameras in hand; Be fast and shoot from the hip for best results!

We've been seeing some great weather here in San Francisco! When the sun is shining and the temperature rises, SF locals take some time to enjoy the weather. With our friends, our pets, our picnics and our cameras in tow, there's no better way to spend a day than outside! Thus, here's a list of some or favorite places to lay out and soak up the sun.

4th of July is coming up, and it's going to be an explosive day of
color and sparkles! We all love fireworks shows, but here's something new and
exciting to try: Create your very own fireworks show in bright
daylight. Every day can have a fireworks display with this Tipster from Elena Kulikova!

Things are heating up here in San Francisco! We're ready to play in the sunshine; Tag along with the Lomography Gallery Store SF for some analogue adventures and learn a bit about some of our favorite cameras and techniques!

Photobooth SF is a go-to photographic boutique in San Francisco's Mission District.
Specializing in tintype and Polaroid portraits, owners Vince Donovan and Michael Shindler spread the gospel of analog with their sleek space and array of photographic knowledge with all who enter.

Our latest photo walk was a special one, indeed; Aside from being Cinco de Mayo and Children's day, we got to shoot nightscapes under the Super Moon, one of the brightest full moons of the year! Check out our pictures of the photo walk after the jump.

Yesterday, Lomography shared some good news with the world; We had a Baby! A Baby Fisheye 110, that is. We invited the city of San Francisco to come celebrate the newest addition to our film-loving family. Check out some photos of our party at the San Francisco Gallery Store after the jump!

This morning, Lomography unleashed not one, but TWO new analogue cameras! These lovely additions to our product range might be bite-sized, but they're making a big splash at the launch event at the San Francisco Gallery Store!

Happy birthday to the Lomo LC-A! The LC-A has a long history of making beautiful and unique images, and it’s easily one of our favorite photographic tools. Let’s take it out and show our love for this Russian beauty on a street photography walk! Bring your LC-A, LC-A+ or LC-Wide and we’ll give your LC-A a birthday roll of 35mm film to shoot with. It's going down on Tuesday a the Lomography Gallery Store San Francisco!

We’ve just launched fresh new collections of all our cameras, and the new colors pack quite a punch. It’s a perfect time to get you reacquainted with one of our old favorites, the Lomography Fisheye camera series! We’re shooting the wide world with 170-degree vision; Join us at the Lomography Gallery Store San Francisco as we take a trip around town with our fishy pals.

A little bit of extra light never hurt anybody; In fact, it usually adds interest and unpredictability to your photos! Join Lomo celebrity Elena Kulikova at the Lomography Gallery Store San Francisco, whose images have been featured on product packages as well as the Diana F+ book, as she teaches you about light leaks and how to make the most out of the sunshine.

Getting out of town doesn’t mean leaving your Lomo behind, especially when the destination is Reno, the so-called “Biggest Little City in the World”! Two San Francisco Lomographers and their friends recently headed to Reno, Nevada, for big wins, big eats, and big fun. We took our Lomo loves along with us, not thinking twice about capturing our highlights on film. Join us on our Lomoventure!

It's been 6 months since Lomography opened our doors here in San Francisco! If you haven't been to the shop yet, now's the time to join us for a workshop, photo walk, Blue Hour party or to see the exhibitions in our store! We have a fresh variety of events lined up for June, so check them out then join in the fun.

We've talked about the custom Diana F+ cameras made by local San Francisco artists... Now let's have a glimpse at the photographs submitted for the Vignettes for Charity exhibition at our San Francisco Gallery Store. Some talented photographers of all backgrounds are giving viewers a glimpse into life in the city... Check them out below!

The Diana World Tour has come to America at last! As it travels from San Francisco to New York, each Gallery Store will show a unique assortment of Diana F+ cameras customized by local artists and designers; You may not get a chance to see the San Francisco Gallery Store's 2012 artist clones in person, but we want you to see them from home! Here's the first installment of this series, in which we show you a few pieces and let the artists talk about them.

We're utterly inspired by film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 20-minute LomoKino movie. We want you to go forth and make a masterpiece, too! Join us at the Lomography Gallery Store San Francisco this Saturday as we teach you all about our 35mm movie camera, and how to make great movies with it.

Lomography and MUBI have teamed up for something special: We proudly present a 20-minute independent film shot entirely on our LomoKino! Filmed by world-renowned director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, this film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19th, and we're happy to screen it for you in-store as well!

An often overlooked feature of the Diana F+ is the pinhole option. We’re going on a lensless adventure, and you should tag along, too. Special guest appearance from the Diana Multiple Pinhole Operator!

Little sister to our classic Diana F+ 120 camera, the Mini packs all the punch of the original in a more compact package. Meet us at the Lomography Gallery Store San Franciscio as we shoot street style downtown in square format!